LMS with items (FT style)
In FT, players start with less than 200:200 and all health/armor map items are available. IMO LMS should have this, at least as an option, if not by default.
It would help a lot with the Last Man Sneaking issue: currently once you lose some health/armor there is no way to recover so players do anything to avoid losing some stack, including hiding. Some players just want to fight the whole time, but currently this is punished by everyone else hanging back and spamming the area with no way for the fighters to recover from that.
If you have 10:0 and no regen and there's no map items, what are you going to do? Fly around the map trying to get a frag, or sneak around hoping to win by sniping?
It would help balance late joins: with !923 (merged) if the losing player quickly reconnects, sometimes they can get an advantage (more health/armor), and it probably isn't possible to completely fix that without introducing other problems. If they could pick up items instead it would alleviate this.
I think players would enjoy this more than the approaches in !808 (merged), and #2507 is a different gametype. FT plays very well, at least when !933 (merged) is used.